Title

“All Torment, Trouble, Wonder, and Amazement Inhabits Here": The Vicissitudes of Technology in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2001

Source Publication

Journal of American and Comparative Cultures

Abstract

Argues that several central themes in the television program "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" can be understood best by looking at the sources of social relations conditioned by technology. Citations of several passages about cultural obsession with the occult; Description of a technological society; Difference between the real world and the world portrayed in the TV program.

Comments

Journal of American and Comparative Cultures, Vol. 24, No. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2001): 93-102. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-4726.2001.2401_93.x